La sociologie de l'engagement politique : le Mahdawîya indien et l'État
This paper examines the interpretative capacity and political volatility of the Mahdawîya movement founded by Sayyid Muhammad Jaunpûrî (1443-1505) which spread widely across South Asia. The movement's engagement with the Mughal state, it is argued, varied with social location, moving from jihad...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université de Provence
2000-07-01
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| Series: | Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/remmm/258 |
| Summary: | This paper examines the interpretative capacity and political volatility of the Mahdawîya movement founded by Sayyid Muhammad Jaunpûrî (1443-1505) which spread widely across South Asia. The movement's engagement with the Mughal state, it is argued, varied with social location, moving from jihad activism to hijra communal withdrawal, a process requiring continual reinterpretation of texts. The paper challenges the notion that Mahdism, unlike other millennialisms, must necessarily engage in activist jihâd against the state, a perspective rooted in Orientalist assumptions concerning the importance of the state and the primacy to Muslim action of Islâmic formative texts. |
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| ISSN: | 0997-1327 2105-2271 |